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We develop a variance reduction method for smoothing splines. We do this by showing that the quadratic interpolation method introduced in Cheng et al. (2006), for local linear estimators, also works for smoothing splines. For a given point of estimation, Cheng et al. (2006) define a variance-reduced local linear estimate as a linear combination of classical estimates at three nearby points. We ...

plexity. This conclusion is conceptually similar to our own, and it little alters the broader impacts of our published findings; still, the general relevance of the issues warrants a response. In their reanalysis, Gutierrez-Ibanez et al. [2016] perform a ‘residual analysis’, which regresses body weight on brain weight with phylogenetic generalized least squares (PGLS) to obtain size-corrected r...

We focus on a recently proposed regression framework termed lattice regression, as applied to the construction of multidimensional color management look-up tables from empirical measurements. The key idea of lattice regression is that the construction of a look-up table should take into account the interpolation function used in its final implementation. Lattice regression solves for the look-u...

Given sufficiently deep optical spectroscopy, the age estimation of high-redshift (z > 1) galaxies has been claimed to be a relatively robust process (e.g. Dunlop et al. 1996) due to the fact that, for ages < 5Gyr, the near-ultraviolet light of a stellar population is expected to be dominated by 'well-understood' main-sequence (MS) stars. Recently, however, the reliability of this process has b...

A fast-growing theoretical literature on the political economy of reform has provided a sizable collection of models that have deepened our understanding concerning how distributional conflict manifests itself in the political process and can prevent efficiency-enhancing economic reform from taking place (see e.g., Allan Drazen [2000 Ch. 10, 13] for an insightful review). Unfortunately, systema...

9 Country Comparisons of Human Stroke Research Since 2001 A Bibliometric Study Kjell Asplund, MD; Marie Eriksson, PhD; Olle Persson, PhD (Stroke. 2012;43:830-837.)

Comparative Performance of Multi-view Stereoscopic and Mammographic Display Modalities for Breast Lesion Detection by Lincoln Jon Webb Medical Physics Graduate Program Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Ehsan Samei, Supervisor ___________________________ Joseph Lo ___________________________ Sua Yoo An abstract of a thesis submitted in partial ful...